registrar owns '.' ?

[Mark Andrews]

> We used to host the bjaonline.com domain, but it now seems parked by
> MelbourneIT. At one point the delegation was changed to name-servers
> apparently used for domain parking, but more recently there have been
> other, non-authoritative, name-servers added.
> 
> Anyway here's how the domain-parking name-servers respond
> 
> root at cuscus4# dig @ns2.mitparked.com. bjaonline.com.
> 
> ; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> @ns2.mitparked.com. bjaonline.com. 
> ; (1 server found)
> ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
> ;; got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 33506
> ;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1
> ;; QUERY SECTION:
> ;;      bjaonline.com, type = A, class = IN
> 
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> bjaonline.com.          30M IN A        203.27.227.91
> 
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> .                       30M IN NS       ns.
> 
> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> ns.                     30M IN A        203.27.227.91
> 
> ;; Total query time: 180 msec
> ;; FROM: cuscus4.cc.uq.edu.au to SERVER: 203.27.227.68
> ;; WHEN: Tue Jan 30 14:52:06 2007
> ;; MSG SIZE  sent: 31  rcvd: 78
> 
> 
> Are the authority and additional sections sensible ?

	No.

	Melbourne IT really should not be attempting to poison
	peoples caches.  This is what happens when you don't setup
	a nameserver correctly and attempt to serve everything out
	of a root zone.

	Melbourne IT should know better.

	If they want to set up a named to act as a parking server
	they should do something like this.

	zone "parked1.com.au" { type master; file "parked"; };
	zone "parked2.com.au" { type master; file "parked"; };

	where parked is  

	@ 3600 SOA ns1.mitparked.com. hostmaster.mitparked.com. (
		   1 3600 1200 604800 3600 )
	@ 3600 NS ns1.mitparked.com.
	@ 3600 NS ns2.mitparked.com.

	You may also want to add SPF records to say that no email
	will be sent etc.
 
> Danny
> 
> -- 
>    d.thomas at its.uq.edu.au    Danny Thomas,                                  
>   
>           +61-7-3365-8221    Software Infrastructure,
>  http://www.its.uq.edu.au    ITS, The University of Queensland
> 
> 
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